"The company was more usually know as the Guinea or African Company; incorporated on 10 January 1663 as 'the Company of Royal Adventurers trading into Africa'...." so L&M, later known as the
Royal African Company
NOTE:..Incorporated the 20th of January 1662, in the 14th year of the reign of Charles II.
ARMS:..Or (gold), an elephant Azure (blue), on his back a quadrangular castle Argent (silver), masoned Proper (natural color); on the sinister tower a flagstaff and banner Gules (red), on the dexter corner of the banner a canton Argent (silver), charged with a cross Gules (red), on the dexter corner of the escutcheon a canton quarterly of France and England.
CREST:..On a ducal coronet Or (gold), an anchor erect Sable (black), cabled of the first (i.e., gold), between two dragons' wings expanded Argent (silver), each charged with a cross Gules (red).
SUPPORTERS:..Two African blacks Proper (natural color), vested round the waist with a skirt Argent (silver), pearls in their ears and round their necks banded round the temples Or (gold), thereon feathers erect of various colours each holding in his exterior hand an arrow Or (gold), barbed and feathered Argent (silver).
Nix, methinks the work and interests of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), 'eccentric' [wide-ranging] though they be, seem hardly aligned with the subject or Pepys's review of "A vindication of the degree of gentry, &c." or its peculiar anonymity (Digby publishad a cookbook in his own name).
Interesting piece of detective work, though. As I wrote in the Background note, "Available in microform...widely in academic libaries across the US."
"The Royal College of Physicians [created] by Royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518....[had as its] main functions...to grant licenses to those qualified to practice and to punish unqualified practitioners and those engaging in malpractice. This included apothecaries as well as physicians. In 1523 an Act of Parliament extended the College's influence and licensing powers from London to the whole of England.
"In addition to issuing advice on grave threats to health such as plague and cholera, the College made important contributions to the development of medical literature and education. The publication by the College of the first of ten editions of the London Pharmacopoeia in 1618 provided a cornerstone for regulating the composition of medicines that was to last until 1864.
"Later in the seventeenth century the College became the licensing body for medical books, and sought to set new standards in learning through its own system of examinations." http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/colleg…
" we walked pleasantly to Woolwich, in our way hearing the nightingales sing."
A bucolic stroll reminiscent of Wednesday's with Mr. Howe "which was very pleasant along the green [corne and peas], and most of the way sang, he and I"
Between episodes of intense and all-consuming personal turmoil, Samuel Pepys, a man of SO many parts, has an eye and ear for the world outside and beyond himself!
Thanks, Jeannine, for the quintessential Sam, who, finally, wishes for his parents what would stand us all well to be wished by our children in our own retirements if 'twere fit, viz. "there being nothing that I can hope or doe wish for you more, then that the abatement of your plenty may bee made up in the encrease of your peace."
In this entry we have, as Aus. Susan said, "an insight into the intimate workings of Sam’s mind". - how I wish Sigmund Freud had read the Diary.
His ego is bare, as usual. The vow and its penalty are the regulations of the super-ego (the internal parent). The id presents in his fits of jealousy and self-defense.
But the remarkable thing is that he has recorded it all!
Pepys Ballads "In organizing his ballads, Pepys came up with categories which seemed to him to reflect the groupings of the broadsides that he had collected. Volume 1 of the five volumes is assumed mainly to consist of the ballads gathered by John Selden, whose collection Pepys purchased to begin his own, and the following essays survey the ballads included in Volume 1. As the archive expands, trends in the later volumes will be analyzed." http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/balla…
Sam promised to retain Pembleton for one month more, or two total.
Cf. "But if this month of her dancing were but out (as my first [month] was this night, and I paid off Pembleton for myself) I shall hope with a little pains to bring her to her old wont."
Keen observation, Yonmei , but if "month" were a refereence to Elizabeth's period, Wheatley would have inserted a series of dots, as he usually does.
Self-control exercised again by a vow with monetary penalties.
"I did enter [my closet?] and make a vow to myself &c" - interesting means, but it seems to have worked generally in re wine and plays [in general]..."which, if God pleases, I will observe".
My paternal Grandfather had a "cuss-box" in which he was to deposit coin whenever certain words (pretty much those Wheatley excises) escaped his lips.
"I wonder if he [is] ever going to see 'Othello' and what is he going to say about the play."
11 October 1660 Samuel Pepys saw "'The Moore of Venice,' which was well done. Burt acted the Moore; ‘by the same token, a very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to see Desdemona smothered." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Not much of a review, but less negative than usual for a play by Shakespeare.
"the new yacht ordered to be built by Christopher Pett"
L&M say this was the Henrietta built to replace "the [Jemmy which Pepys saw 5 September 1662] ...set out from Greenwich with the little Dutch bezan, to try for mastery; and before they got to Woolwich the Dutch beat them half-a-mile (and I hear this afternoon, that, in coming home, it got above three miles); which all our people are glad of." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
[There was a "Royal Navy Ship of the Line Henrietta Maria, Goddard, Deptford, 1633, Renamed Paragon in 1650 and lost ... Langport, Bright, Horsleydown, 1654, Renamed Henrietta after the Restoration. ... www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/sa… ]
"I...did make an end of 'La Duchesse,' which I think I should, with a little pains, do very well."
I assume “La Duchesse” is a particular dance (I've been unable to document it -- Dirk?!), and Sam'l means he has the steps memorized, but not perfected,
Comments
First Reading
About English Royal Africa Company ("Guinea Company")
TerryF • Link
The web site above is mistaken. The Royal African Company was reorganized in 1672, the 12th year in the riegn of Charles II.
About English Royal Africa Company ("Guinea Company")
TerryF • Link
"The company was more usually know as the Guinea or African Company; incorporated on 10 January 1663 as 'the Company of Royal Adventurers trading into Africa'...." so L&M, later known as the
Royal African Company
NOTE:..Incorporated the 20th of January 1662, in the 14th year of the reign of Charles II.
ARMS:..Or (gold), an elephant Azure (blue), on his back a quadrangular castle Argent (silver), masoned Proper (natural color); on the sinister tower a flagstaff and banner Gules (red), on the dexter corner of the banner a canton Argent (silver), charged with a cross Gules (red), on the dexter corner of the escutcheon a canton quarterly of France and England.
CREST:..On a ducal coronet Or (gold), an anchor erect Sable (black), cabled of the first (i.e., gold), between two dragons' wings expanded Argent (silver), each charged with a cross Gules (red).
SUPPORTERS:..Two African blacks Proper (natural color), vested round the waist with a skirt Argent (silver), pearls in their ears and round their necks banded round the temples Or (gold), thereon feathers erect of various colours each holding in his exterior hand an arrow Or (gold), barbed and feathered Argent (silver).
MOTTO:..REGIO FLORET PATROCINIO COMMERCIUM COMMERCIOQUE REGNUM.
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.…
About Friday 22 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Nix, methinks the work and interests of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665), 'eccentric' [wide-ranging] though they be, seem hardly aligned with the subject or Pepys's review of "A vindication of the degree of gentry, &c." or its peculiar anonymity (Digby publishad a cookbook in his own name).
Interesting piece of detective work, though.
As I wrote in the Background note, "Available in microform...widely in academic libaries across the US."
About Royal College of Physicians
TerryF • Link
"The Royal College of Physicians [created] by Royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518....[had as its] main functions...to grant licenses to those qualified to practice and to punish unqualified practitioners and those engaging in malpractice. This included apothecaries as well as physicians. In 1523 an Act of Parliament extended the College's influence and licensing powers from London to the whole of England.
"In addition to issuing advice on grave threats to health such as plague and cholera, the College made important contributions to the development of medical literature and education. The publication by the College of the first of ten editions of the London Pharmacopoeia in 1618 provided a cornerstone for regulating the composition of medicines that was to last until 1864.
"Later in the seventeenth century the College became the licensing body for medical books, and sought to set new standards in learning through its own system of examinations." http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/colleg…
About Friday 22 May 1663
TerryF • Link
" we walked pleasantly to Woolwich, in our way hearing the nightingales sing."
A bucolic stroll reminiscent of Wednesday's with Mr. Howe "which was very pleasant along the green [corne and peas], and most of the way sang, he and I"
Between episodes of intense and all-consuming personal turmoil, Samuel Pepys, a man of SO many parts, has an eye and ear for the world outside and beyond himself!
About Between a Son and His Father: Sam's Letter to John Sr regarding Brampton
TerryF • Link
Thanks, Jeannine, for the quintessential Sam, who, finally, wishes for his parents what would stand us all well to be wished by our children in our own retirements if 'twere fit, viz. "there being nothing that I can hope or doe wish for you more, then that the abatement of your plenty may bee made up in the encrease of your peace."
About Friday 22 May 1663
TerryF • Link
"learning to understand the course of the tides"
is indeed what the times (all times) call for.
About Thursday 21 May 1663
TerryF • Link
SP's ego, super-ego, and id on display!
In this entry we have, as Aus. Susan said, "an insight into the intimate workings of Sam’s mind". - how I wish Sigmund Freud had read the Diary.
His ego is bare, as usual. The vow and its penalty are the regulations of the super-ego (the internal parent). The id presents in his fits of jealousy and self-defense.
But the remarkable thing is that he has recorded it all!
For Freud http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego%… and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich
About General song information
TerryF • Link
Pepys ballads - Facsimile Transcriptions
150+ ballad lyrics transcribed
http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/balla…
About General song information
TerryF • Link
Pepys Ballads
"In organizing his ballads, Pepys came up with categories which seemed to him to reflect the groupings of the broadsides that he had collected. Volume 1 of the five volumes is assumed mainly to consist of the ballads gathered by John Selden, whose collection Pepys purchased to begin his own, and the following essays survey the ballads included in Volume 1. As the archive expands, trends in the later volumes will be analyzed."
http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/balla…
About Thursday 21 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Why 2s. 6d. for failing to keep his vow (NOT 'oath')?
Let's see: 12d.=1s. and 20s.=1£ (from Grahamt's handy summary provided by Todd Bernhardt in the Encyclopedia)
2s. 5d. = 1/8£ (20/2.5 = 8), which hurts!
About Thursday 21 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Sam promised to retain Pembleton for one month more, or two total.
Cf. "But if this month of her dancing were but out (as my first [month] was this night, and I paid off Pembleton for myself) I shall hope with a little pains to bring her to her old wont."
Keen observation, Yonmei , but if "month" were a refereence to Elizabeth's period, Wheatley would have inserted a series of dots, as he usually does.
About Thursday 21 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Self-control exercised again by a vow with monetary penalties.
"I did enter [my closet?] and make a vow to myself &c" - interesting means, but it seems to have worked generally in re wine and plays [in general]..."which, if God pleases, I will observe".
My paternal Grandfather had a "cuss-box" in which he was to deposit coin whenever certain words (pretty much those Wheatley excises) escaped his lips.
About Huguenot
TerryF • Link
Per Stolzi on Thu 2 Jun 2005, 3:06 pm | http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
“French Psalms”
This would probably be the music of the French Huguenot Protestants.
http://spindleworks.com/music/hug…
gives some sample pages of a French Psalter and some midi tunes, but I don’t see any harmonies here for Sam and friend.
This page
http://www.credenda.org/issues/11…
tells of Goudimel, who harmonized all the Psalms.
It sounds as if LeJeune’s work on the Psalms
http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/his…
would have been beyond two men singing together at home.
Finally, this page makes a very emotional statement about the appeal of the Psalms to the Huguenots:
http://hub.dataline.net.au/~kenda…
About Wednesday 20 May 1663
TerryF • Link
"I wonder if he [is] ever going to see 'Othello'
and what is he going to say about the play."
11 October 1660 Samuel Pepys saw "'The Moore of Venice,' which was well done. Burt acted the Moore; ‘by the same token, a very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to see Desdemona smothered." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Not much of a review, but less negative than usual for a play by Shakespeare.
About Wednesday 20 May 1663
TerryF • Link
"the new yacht ordered to be built by Christopher Pett"
L&M say this was the Henrietta built to replace "the [Jemmy which Pepys saw 5 September 1662] ...set out from Greenwich with the little Dutch bezan, to try for mastery; and before they got to Woolwich the Dutch beat them half-a-mile (and I hear this afternoon, that, in coming home, it got above three miles); which all our people are glad of."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
[There was a "Royal Navy Ship of the Line Henrietta Maria, Goddard, Deptford, 1633, Renamed Paragon in 1650 and lost ... Langport, Bright, Horsleydown, 1654, Renamed Henrietta after the Restoration. ...
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/sa… ]
About Tuesday 19 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Bradford, I have it at 2100 words includimg the enumerative 1-0.
About Saturday 16 May 1663
TerryF • Link
The “La Duchesse” of 178x.
Surely Edward Jones's was a collection of "old standard" country-dances/contre-danses.
(I'm comforted that others also call down those reading these posts to correct and complete info - cf. Australian Susan's appeal to LH above!)
About Saturday 16 May 1663
TerryF • Link
in Aqua Scripto to the rrrrescue of "La Duchesse"!!
(No sooner had I posted last than I wondered what you might do. Verily! A nom de dans, verrry imaginative, as usual!!)
About Saturday 16 May 1663
TerryF • Link
"I...did make an end of 'La Duchesse,' which I think I should, with a little pains, do very well."
I assume “La Duchesse” is a particular dance (I've been unable to document it -- Dirk?!), and Sam'l means he has the steps memorized, but not perfected,